![]() ![]() The Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust website says the site was handed back to the RAF in 1946 after “all units had disbanded or left the airfield” post-war. According to Forgotten Airfields, the site was built in 1941 by the RAF before being “taken over and altered by the Royal Navy”. Fearn Airfield, Highland – 386.42 hectaresįearn Airfield near Balintore, Scotland’s largest derelict site, is thought to have been derelict for at least four decades. As such, surveying “the geographical size of Highland means that information can only be provided when resources allow”. The council was unable to confirm whether these sites were still derelict.Ī council spokesperson stressed that the survey is voluntary and that it had the “busiest” planning department in Scotland. However, as the local authority has not updated its land survey since 2015, all of its previously listed sites were included the 2018 edition. Three sites, including the largest, were in the Highland Council area. According to the survey, these sites have collectively lain derelict or disused for at least 260 years. Almost all were derelict, in rural areas and privately owned. The 10 largest sites we analysed made up 2,449 hectares, or 22 per cent of the total. They made up a collective 11,356 hectares of Scotland’s land – around 44 square miles and almost twice the size of Dundee – and the headline figures have not changed substantially since the late 1990s. In the 2018 survey, the latest available, 3,640 vacant and derelict sites were listed. The Scottish Government uses data collected by local authorities to publish an annual list of registered disused land and buildings, to assess the scale of the issue and keep track of remediation. ‘Left behind and ignored’ – Glasgow’s derelict buildings ![]()
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